Videos

III. Smalltalk 4-Aug-2009 (3min) between President Obama and WH Press Corps member Helen Thomas via C-SPAN, (1:30 +text) via CBS
A shared birthday wish; real health care reform bill, cash for clunkers $2B (not million)
How to start a clunker (0:38)
prejudice
II. Sports Songs: Washington Redskins football team
III. Whole Foods Market in Baltimore 24-Mar-2010: surprise opera (4min) via WashNatOpera , (3:30) via BaltimoreSun
Humor in Farsi: 20-Apr-2008 citizenship interview (5min) via IranianSchoolSD
fall of saigon: April 1975Britich http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AiyFF9qOls&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oJXCWFIjFo&feature=related too noisy
V. Jose Cuervo is a friend of mine pronunciation of v, th (both kinds), p lyrics

Sports in the News: NY City Marathon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdo8aijgRx4 (7 Nov 2010) 3M people?

IV. The Oxford pronunciation via http://hardlyworking.wikispaces.com/Orthography+is+Great ignores the popular American use, as in this (31 Mar 2009) singing of "Scarborough Fair. words with ough
regional contractions in Woddy Allen's Annie Hall
III. No. I don't know what time it is. http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/bananas.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas
via youtube (2:55) Great White Way Orchestra (with photo montage and lyrics) | (3:40) Green Bros. Orchestra (with 1903 film) | (3:20) Spike Jones

site:youtube.com "New York" sinatra

Muhammad Ali doing his Float Like a Butterfly sting like a bee poem before the George Foreman Fight, Start at :32
speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-5_8af3TiY&feature=related + fight in 1964; rhyme
site:youtube.com song 'stings like a bee" Ali

http://www.gov.state.la.us/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jindal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger

(VIII) Accent on American politicians born abroad:
From Austria and California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger



http://www.lantosfoundation.org/Remembering_LantosFoundation_AboutTheMan.asp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvM8bSmVoQA
from wikipedia
Born February 1, 1928 as Lantos Tamás Péter[citation needed] (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈlɒntoʃ ˈtɒmaːʃ ˈpeːtɛr]) to aJewish family in Budapest,Hungary, Lantos was part of a resistance movement against the Nazis during the German occupation of Hungary.
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from California's 11th and 12th district
In office January 5, 1981 – February 11, 2008



(Farsi and English,)swearing-in ceremony

**Jimmy Delshad's** installment as the Mayor of Beverly Hills

BBC Persian TV's Aslan Hafezi reports on installment of Jimmy Delshad as the Mayor of Beverly Hills for the second time.
by hafezia 7 months ago 1,425 views
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Delshad
Jamshid "Jimmy" Delshad (Persian: جیمی دلشاد) is an Iranian-American politician in the state of California. He becameMayor of Beverly Hills[1] on March 21, 2007 and again on March 16, 2010.


http://www.youtube.com/user/jimdelshad
English "year in review" listen for extra syllables; th, intonation
"su-wer" "ed-u-ca-shan" "minoridis"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOG8MKnA10Y&feature=related



In the Bay Area, this included Iranian Americans serving in local government: San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimiand Brisbane Mayor Sepi Richardson.
http://www.sepirichardson.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5kYaLYDv6g
1 minute speech






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